LGBT Community Member Geri Delevich to Run for Mayor of New Hope

Geri Delevich, a New Hope community member who has been on Borough Council for 18 years, is now running for mayor of the notoriously LGBT-friendly Bucks County town, reports Jeremy Rodriguez for Philly Gay News.

Delevich was on the ballot yesterday as a democrat, unopposed. She will face Republican incumbent Larry Keller in November.

Throughout her 40 years of living in New Hope, Geri Delevich has championed a number of LGBT+ rights issues, including backing a recently passed protection of transgender students, a 2002 LGBT-inclusive nondiscrimination ordinance, and helping revive the school district’s Gay-Straight Alliance.

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“I was happy to participate in such movements for our area and such protections for people’s rights,” Delevich told PGN. “I am proud that I was able to do that. I feel that members of the community can feel safer here.”

“I am proud that I was able to do that. I feel that members of the community can feel safer here.”

Delevich was also an executive producer of Embrace You, a documentary about diversity New Hope.